Daily Digest: The King Of Tokens

I always feels silly when my strategy gets one-upped. Lingering Souls was the talk of the Pro Tour, but this deck should dominate the Lingering Souls mirrors with superior token generating power.

It focuses on Young Pyromancer and Old Pyromancer (AKA Monastery Mentor) alongside a pile of discard and removal spells. Thoughtseize and Inquisition of Kozilek protect your creatures from removal spells and help you not die to combo decks. They can always be used to snipe sideboard bombs out of your opponent's hand, such as Zealous Persecution. Dark Confidant provides a nice engine here, as the mana curve is relatively low, and Lightning Helix plus Vault of the Archangel can gain some of that life back.

With Crackling Doom, Path to Exile, and Thoughtseize, there are a lot of generic answers to any threat, so it will be rare where something like Tarmogoyf slips through the cracks and you can't deal with it. Ground creatures without evasion end up being poor against this deck anyway, as there isn't any shortage of chump blockers.

About Gerry Thompson

Gerry Thompson is a well-regarded Constructed specialist, deck-tuner, long-time pro, and SCG Tour end boss. He has eleven Grand Prix Top 8s with two wins and seven SCG Invitational Top 8s with two wins. He won Pro Tour Amonkhet and made the Top 8 of Pro Tour Gatecrash. Many records on the SCG Tour were first set by him.